Human Fertility Increases With Marital Radius From: Genetics | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Amorim, Antà ³ Labouriau, Rodrigo; nio | Copyright Genetics Society of America Jan 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

We report a positive association between marital radius (distance between mates' birthplaces) and fertility detected in a large population. Spurious association due to socioeconomic factors is discarded by a conditional analysis involving income, education, and urbanicity. Strong evidence of consanguinity's deleterious effects affecting an entire human population is provided.

MARITAL radius, i.e., the distance between mates' birthplaces, is a classic population structur...